Where off-street loading is required under the dimensional requirements of a particular district, one or more loading berths or other spaces shall be provided for standing, loading and unloading operations, either inside or outside a building and on the same or adjoining premises with every building or structure erected after November 6, 1975 all to be in accordance with the requirements of the following table. A loading berth shall have minimum plan dimensions of twelve by twenty-five feet and a fourteen-foot overhead clearance. A loading space need not necessarily be a full berth but shall be sufficient to allow normal loading and unloading operations of a kind and magnitude appropriate to the property served thereby. The Planning Director shall determine the sufficiency of loading space, but in
no case shall the use of such space hinder the free movement of vehicles and pedestrians over a street, sidewalk, or alley. Minimum requirements shall be as follows:
Use
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Space Requirement
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Use
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Space Requirement
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Retail operations, including restaurant and dining facilities within hotels and office buildings, with a total usable floor area of twenty thousand square Feet or more devoted to that purpose. | One loading berth for every twenty thousand square feet of floor area. |
Retail operations, and all first floor non-residential uses, with gross floor area of less than twenty thousand square feet, and all wholesale and light industrial operations with a gross floor area of less than ten thousand square feet. | A loading space (not necessarily a full berth). |
Office buildings and hotels, with a total usable area of one hundred thousand square feet or more devoted to such purposes. | One loading berth for every one hundred thousand square feet of floor area. |
Industrial and wholesale operations with a gross floor area of ten thousand square feet or over and as follows: | |
Ten thousand to forty thousand square feet | One |
Forty thousand to one hundred thousand square feet | Two |
One hundred sixty thousand to two hundred forty thousand square feet | Four |
Two hundred forty thousand to three hundred twenty thousand square feet. | Five |
Three hundred twenty thousand to four hundred thousand square feet | Six |
Each ninety thousand square feet above four hundred thousand square feet. | One |
(11-20-75, art. 6, 6.01)